Word: crudest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brilliant non-believers as his present chief, Winston Churchill, who was among those who refused to support Chamberlain's policy, Baxter wrote Maclean's: "It may seem a small thing for a group of men to refuse to support their leader. Actually it is one of the crudest decisions that a politician must make. ... It is against the enthusiasms and affection which come to men who have played on the same team. . . ." He added proudly: "I . . . voted for my leader [Chamberlain...
Last week the crudest episode in the war against civilians had a happy sequel. A lumbering Sunderland flying boat on convoy duty sighted a lifeboat 600 miles off the Irish coast. Aboard were 46 survivors of the City of Benares, in the sudden sinking of which fortnight ago 83 children and 210 adults were thought lost. The 20-ton flying boat, running short of fuel, signaled her relief plane, which in turn signaled a warship...